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1 story matching laff
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:laffe, laffoon, lafferti, glaff, langstaff, laforc
- The Great Escape from the Pest House
Afraid of being locked in a 'death pen' for an illness, a Skagit man chose to walk home from Seattle to Mount Vernon over two and a half days.